Ray McDonald

Free advice to all the coddlers and enablers from the NFL: you know who you are. Jim Harbaugh, come on down. Ryan Pace, we got you! Roger Goodell? Take a seat in the front row, my man!

Did you guys hear that Ray McDonald was arrested Wednesday in Santa Clara, Calif., for violating a restraining order?

Golly gee, did you see that one coming?

Answer: Of course. Anyone could — anyone with common sense, a lick of decency and not smitten by the fact that McDonald was a dominant defensive end in the NFL. That's always been McDonald's trump card, the one he used to get out of NFL jail.

That's why the Harbaugh and the San Francisco 49ers kept him despite McDonald's...

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